{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/edge-coloring-lattice-graphs","title":"Edge coloring lattice graphs","arxiv_id":"2402.08752","date":"2024-02-13","proceeding":null,"authors":["Joris Kattemölle"],"abstract":"We develop the theory of the edge coloring of infinite lattice graphs, proving a necessary and sufficient condition for a proper edge coloring of a patch of a lattice graph to induce a proper edge coloring of the entire lattice graph by translation. This condition forms the cornerstone of a method that finds nearly minimal or minimal edge colorings of infinite lattice graphs. In case a nearly minimal edge coloring is requested, the running time is $O(\\mu^2 D^4)$, where $\\mu$ is the number of edges in one cell (or `basis graph') of the lattice graph and $D$ is the maximum distance between two cells so that there is an edge from within one cell to the other. In case a minimal edge coloring is requested, we lack an upper bound on the running time, which we find need not pose a limitation in practice; we use the method to minimal edge color the meshes of all $k$-uniform tilings of the plane for $k\\leq 6$, while utilizing modest computational resources. We find that all these lattice graphs are Vizing class~I. Relating edge colorings to quantum circuits, our work finds direct application by offering minimal-depth quantum circuits in the areas of quantum simulation, quantum optimization, and quantum state verification.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08752v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.08752v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"edge-coloring-lattice-graphs","repo_url":"https://github.com/kattemolle/ecolpy","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}